A series of personal documentaries on the contemporary world. Embracing the Bear by the Rt Hon Enoch Powell. 'The Soviet Union has never represented a military threat.' As the world turns its attention towards the USSR's first experiments in democracy, do we really understand the nature of the Soviet Union?
Enoch Powell , one of Britain's best known and most controversial political figures, visits the Soviet
Union during the first days of the People's Congress, to explore the Soviet experience of war, Stalinism and the new thirst for openness.
Inside the chamber of the Congress, Powell observes: 'It is an extraordinary experience to be among people who take a positive pride in the fact they don't know where they're going.
But the Soviet Union remains our natural ally.'
Photography JEREMY HUMPHRIES Assistant producers
ARMORER WASON. ANWER BAT! Film editor IAN PITCH
Director MARK HARRISON
Executive producer DAVID PEARSON BBC Bristol
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